Therapeutic electrical apparatus.



A No. 706,602. Patented Au I2, 1902.

I. E. SHAFFE R. THERAPEUTIC ELECTRICAL APPARATUS.

(Application filed Nov. 27, 1901.)

(No Modal.)

WITNESSES: INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRA E. SHAFFER, OF MOUNT VERNON, NEv'V YORK.

THERAPEUTIC ELECTRICALIAPPARATUS. w

dPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 706,602, dated August12, 1902.

Application filed N oveniher 27, 19o1j Serial No. 83,944. (Nomodel) ToaZZ whom it may concern: p

Be it known that I, IRA E. SHAFFER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Westchester and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Therapeutic Electrical Apparatus,of

which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to electrical apparatus; and the object thereof isto provide apparatus for therapeutic purposes which will distribute theelectric current over either a larger surface or the entire surface ofirregular parts of the human anatomy or of animals in the application ofsaid current.

I shall describe my invention more particularly as applied to thetreatment of the uterus; but it will be understood that by varying theform, size, and shape of the instrument it can be applied in like mannerto the diderent internal and external organs which it would beadvantageous to treat with the electric current by direct application.

In the application of electricity to the animal organs it is usual toattach a sponge to one of the poles or terminals and place it againstthe organ to be treated, While the other terminal is grasped in the handor applied to another part of the body; When the sponge is applied to anorgan, it usually touches only one part of it and when the current isturned o'n'there is a contraction of that part. In order to apply thecurrent to all parts, the sponge must be removed from one part toanother and each part in turn is contracted. It is my purpose to reachall parts of the organs at the same time, so that all parts shallcontract at the same time and expand together, thus getting the fullbenefit of the application of the current to the organ.

One of the most diificult organs to treat electrically is the uterus,for the reasons stated above, and it is the special object of myinvention to provide an electrical apparatus for this purpose which willsuccessfully distribute the current over all exposed parts, which issimple and easily manufactured, and which can be conveniently usedwithout the aid of an assistant. r

I attain the objects of my invention by the construction illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side View of a syringeconstructed according to my invention, a part of the reservoir and tubeleading therefrom being shown. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of thenozzle and batterysholder, showing a battery mounted therein; and Fig.is an end View of the nozzle and battery-holder.

In the accompanying drawings like parts are indicated by the samenumerals of reference in each of the views, and in the practice of myinvention I provide a nozzle 5 and a globular tip 6, which is detachablyconnected with the end of said nozzle, preferably by being screwed intothe same, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The other end of the nozzle isclosed, the passage-way extending back adjacent thereto andcommunicating with a hollow stud 7, inserted in the side of the nozzle.In operation a flexible tube 8 is mounted on the stud 7 and is connectedwith a reservoir 9, whereby water maybe made to [low through the nozzle,as will be readily understood.

For convenience I secure a battery-holder 10 to the rear end of thenozzle 5 and in it I mount a dry battery 11 of any desired constructionand which may be held in said holder by a rim-cap 12 or in anyconvenient manner.

In the passage-way of the nozzle I mount a metal tube 13, so constructedand disposed that all the Water passing through the nozzle will passthrough said tube. One of the poles of the batteryis connected with saidtube 13 by a conducting-wire 14: and binding-screw 15. The other pole'isconnected with a plate 1 6 by a Wire 17 and binding-screw 1.8. The tip 6is provided with a plurality of orifices 19 of considerable size, sothat the water will be discharged in continuous streams from thedifferent orifices.

In operation the nozzle 5 is inserted in the vagina. The battery-holder10 is grasped in the hand, so that the plate 16 will contact with saidhand. The Water is then turned on, and as it passes through the tube 13it will act as a conductor to the parts of the uterus with which itcomes in contact, and as the streamis divided by the plurality oforifices the current will be distributed over the entire exposed surfaceof the uterus, and the contraction of all the parts of the same will beuniform and without the necessity of moving the electrode from one pointto an- Y IO battery from the nozzle, or in using an ordinary medicalbattery with a primary and secondary current, or in substituting a platefor the tube 13 or an ordinary hand-electrode for the plate 16, or of solocating the plate 16 that it will contact with a portion of the bodyinstead of the hand, or in the shape and construction of the nozzle andtip according to the part of the body with which it is to be used.Having thus described my invention, what 20 .I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. A therapeutic electrical apparatuscomprising an instrument adapted to convey a liquid to the part of thebodyto be treated,

means to electrically charge the flowing liquid, and a sphericalterminal provided with perforations so disposed as to disperse theliquid over a large area, for the purpose set forth.

2. A therapeutic electrical apparatus com- .3o,prising an instrumentadapted-to convey a liquid to the part of the body to be treated, meansto connect one pole of a battery with the flowing liquid, and means toconnect the other pole with a portion of the body, and a sphericalterminal provided with perforations so disposed as to disperse theliquid over a large area, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A therapeuticielectrical apparatus comprising a syringe, abattery-holder connected with one end of the nozzle thereof, a batterymounted in said holder, a terminal mounted in the passage-Way ofsaid'nozzle, and a second terminal mounted on the exterior of thebattery-holder, as and for the purpose set with one end of the nozzlethereof,a battery I mounted in said holder, a tube mounted in thepassage-way of said nozzle, a conductor connecting one pole of saidbattery with said tube, a plate mounted on the exterior surface of saidbattery-holder, and a conductor connecting the other pole of saidbattery with said plate, as and for the purpose set forth.

5. A therapeutic electrical apparatus comprisinga syringe, a battery, aterminal mounted in the nozzle of said syringe, a second terminalexterior to said nozzle, the discharge end of the nozzle being composedof non-conducting material semispherieal in form, and provided with aplurality of perforations, as and for the purpose set forth.

6. A therapeutic electrical apparatus comprising a syringe, abattery-holder, a battery mounted therein, a tube mounted in the nozzleof said syringe, a conductor connecting said tube with one pole of saidbattery, a plate mounted on said battery-holder, a conductor connectingsaid plate with the other pole of said battery, and a globular tipforming the discharge end of said nozzle, said tip being provided with aplurality of large orifices, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this application in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

IRA E. SHAFFEB.

